Eternal-Silence - New Pretty Artwork

[Iced_Eagle]

Here is the update from our site.

Another week has gone by and we're still updating our site. I'm quite surprised we have lasted this long, but have no fear we will keep it up. This week we have an art update with 2 very cool models featured. First off, the UTF Hacker from Dete. He kind of surprised us with this one because it came all finished out of the blue and I have to say it is pretty awesome.



Secondly we have a redone NGM Fighter model from a new arrival on the team, tweek. He has impressed us with the quality and the speed with which he finished this model (2 days!) and he is a welcome addition to the team.



We're still working hard on that relief shader and we're tweaking our textures for it now, so you should see some shots of that soon. Space is also coming along, though today's test was rather bug-filled... atleast you won't have to experience them. Busy times are ahead, as the mod is starting to take its final shape. The sense of scale is awesome, seeing a ship take off from the hangar and turn into a little dot in your skybox... More on that soon.

You may have also noticed our new website logo, also courtesy of Dete. For those who don't get it... the big letters spell out ES. We're still alive and kicking, come back next week for more

MadMech Out

Site: www.eternal-silence.net

 

[Javert]

Yea sorry, the logo is weird w/o the explanation...

And are those models (in brief) in-game?

 

[Iced_Eagle]

They aren't in-game yet. But they will be soon They will be of the same quality if that's what you are asking.

Logo might be tweaked a bit, but we _desperately_ needed a logo, so this is our current solution.

 

[Crispy]

It's not often I'm harsh to anyone's creation, but I've had a few drinks and just felt it needed to be said: That logo sux ass.

Why not do what Fortress Forever did and hold a community logo contest?
+ points for your community's sense of involvement and a wealth of ideas to choose from (hopefully).

 

[Iced_Eagle]

The logo is something that I personally want to be tweaked, because frankly it is in fact confusing without the explanation. We just wanted to get reactions from people. It most likely will be tweaked and changed.

We have done some community contests in the past, with limited success (creating banners and artwork and such)... It may have worked this time around, however Dete came to us one day with the basic design, and we sort of talked about it for a day or two, before it was put up. It was rather sudden, but so far we like the change of actually having a logo.

Again, thanks for the comments They will only make us better!

 

[1Luc1]

hi, so the player model looks awesome......

an i love the logo...can't wait for some cyberspace shots....

gz Luc

 

[X_i_Z_o_R]

Lovely player models,

I think the logo may need some tweaking - it's a nice style and needs to have a little more shape to the letters otherwise can't really tell what it is

 

[Iced_Eagle]

an i love the logo...can't wait for some space shots....

Hehe fixed it We have normal space, not any of this cyberspace!

X_i_Z_o_R: I know what you're saying about the shape to the letters. Hopefully the logo will get tweaked later on to better reflect that it spells out "E" and "S"

 

[bigburpco]

Will this mod be out soon? :|

 

[WaterMelon34]

You've got some ace stuff going on there, though a lot of stuff looks like Dystopia... :dozey: Don't get me wrong, the mod looks enticing, but it does look like Dystopia.

EDIT: I'd say the weapon models are better too.

 

[Dr. Nelly Lemon]

It looks kind of like Halo also. I don't know why, call me crazy, but it just reminds me of it for some odd reason.

 

[Iced_Eagle]

Perhaps our artists used Halso as inspiration. Who knows with those art people!

Again, thanks for the feedback guys!

*Edit* Hmmm, I guess it seems that we aren't going to get posted on the front page...

 

[Iced_Eagle]

The moment you have all been waiting for is back once again. This week we have some great player model wallpapers of the NGM Marine. Tweek has also been very busy, infact he is tearing through our ship lineup and completed 3 just this week, and now we have to start inventing new designs to feed his hunger. We will be featuring one of these models in today's update.

First off, the NGM Marine Wallpapers. Raz has been hard at work preparing for the GDC and in his frenzy he updated the skin for the NGM marine and rendered these beautiful wallpaper shots. I think they speak for themselves:



Finally, the UTF Heavy Fighter by Tweek. He really nailed this one (first try actually) and I think it's his best model yet:



On the coding front, we are still fixing the kinks in our relief shading... I know it has been a long time but there are some odd bugs with custom shaders and source, so we are ironing those out. We are also hard at work with the space portion, this week has seen the implementation of a third person view, a basic HUD and some other goodies which don't seem as impressive, but we think they're cool cuz we're programmers.

Have a great week
MadMech

http://www.eternal-silence.net

New update.

 

[1Luc1]

good good good, models look awesome....

 

[armanguy]

i personnaly dont like that model look ugly but the utf hacker looks cool.